This distributed operating system sounds great! I will never miss those spare cycles on my newly-acquired (and blisteringly fast) 486DX2/66.
My only concern is that projects like this will encourage average (non geek) people to want to be "online" ALL THE TIME (!) and this may well cause the World Wide Web to become much more commercialized.
I already, without paying have terrabytes of off-world (sic) storage. I use it to store movies, cds, games and stuff like that. It's called gnutella. Sure, everyone else can access my storage too, but isn't that the point ?
The dictionary object is not strictly part of vb 6, it's in scrrun.dll, which is a vbscript component. You have to actually create a reference to it in a project before you can use it.
I was referring to 2 periods of time- each with 2 encoding standards: pirate and studio release.
In each case the studio release is a large mpg2 file or files on a dvd disk, the pirates used to be also mpg2 but downsized to fit on a cd and were horrible quality- now the pirates still fit on a cd but use divx (mpeg4) and look a lot nicer (than mpg2, cd size). Therefore more people are dissuaded from buying dvds because the alternative is nearly as good quality...
Hope that clears everything up.
graspee
PS why does some motherfucker keep slapping offtopic and over-rated on my posts when their not? It's almost like someone out there hates me... sob sob
I really hope that studios don't look at people's acceptance of divx and say "hey look! people accept the quality of movies that fit into 700MB!", and then start compressing their releases like this.
The reason people accept 700MB divxs is because:
a) they are free b) the quality is a league ahead of the mpg2 of the same file size
People damn-well want dvd quality if they're paying for it, but most people would prefer free divxs instead. With only mpg2 there were more people who were willing to buy the dvd because the mpg2 encoding that fitted on a cd was sub-optimal quality.
The/. effect always reminds me of a story- I think it was called "Flash Crowds" and might have been by Larry Niven.
Basically, teleportation booths are fact, and when people hear of a disaster or something somewhere in the world you get a massive influx of people who just go there like vultures, for a bit of a look-see.
We should be grateful that people in our time just virtually go to hot sites.
If anyone can correct me on the author or title I'd be grateful...
I was trying out an old copy of Netscape 0.9b on Windows XP and so the first site I tried (Ok, the 2nd- msn.com is quicker to type in manually) was of course/.
Amazingly it actually let me log on- so it must I suppose support cookies?!?!?!
Well, the first story that caught my eye was this one and I must say, even though it is slightly off-topic that everything was very very grey back in 1994.
Haha- I don't have an option to select plain text/html etc. Maybe Netters 0.9b doesn't support comboboxes even though it supports cookies. Biiiizarre.
I must go and browse on now- to see if Netscape of this vintage is immune to page widening.
Just checked in another window- yay! Page-widening immunity! (I always said browsers were getting worse...)
Well bibi from 1994, if you want to get this yourself it's available from: (forgive me- I don't know if I'm posting this as html!)
a) someone made the same point earlier b) the grammar is fine. He "probably designed and built the most beautiful aluminium case ever" because he DID build an aluminium case and it is PROBABLY the most beautiful ever, therefore he "probably designed and built the most beautiful aluminium case ever".
I too thought of/. immediately when I saw "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back". Now when I see flamebait posts I can (more) easily imagine little kids writing them.
Seriously, that's all there is to it. You can't really say what elements make a good web design.
You can say things that most people consider bad web design and avoid them, but not really what makes good web design, unless you are so boring and obvious as to say things like "clear, consistant layout" or "works on most modern browsers and is standards-compliant". (Well, duh).
Ahahhaha, but things like asf files and (I think) avis too can contain weblinks which Media Player attempts to open.
Does anyone know whether these have to be statically in the file or if they can contain data dynamically taken from your machine? Also, which movie formats allow this?
I was just thinking then that maybe the web pages I have seen launched were in the meta-data of the file, but then I could swear I've seen a browser open when I was exactly half way through an anime once.
They're being forced at "cashpoint" rather than gunpoint, and pointing large sums of money at people is nearly as effective as pointing a gun at them (for different reasons).
It's funny - I always get a warm glow when I think about Sun, even though I hate every product of theirs I've come into contact with: Java, Solaris, NEOStarOffice.
Maybe it was a good idea they chose the name they did.
In fact not only are they not readable by you, your group and the rest of the world, they are not even readable by owner! This is all due to a bug in the way chmod works in the solaris bio-neural interface...
"Oh well, you know the old ZX-81 and tape drive loading was still far more reliable than any PC hardware and Windows combination I've ever seen. IMHO."
Oh, really? Like the 16K RAM pack that crashes your computer if a speck of heavy dust falls on it the wrong way?
Like the tape speed loaders with checksums that would load all the way to the end and THEN crash?
Your memory is faulty. I'll buy you a new one for Xmas. It will be a surprise. (!)
IP address spoofing (in the classical sense of injecting fake information into the packets you send) is a way of STOPPING certain packets from reaching the intended destination rather than INTERCEPTING packets meant for some destination.
However, if you mean another machine on the LAN having the IP address as you expect your other machine to have then ok, yes, and especially with DHCP in effect...
But there is a simple solution: Have each machine only open one port to the outside world, use scp (secure copy) and even run it on a non-standard port and change the password every day if you feel like it.
Slashdot Mirror
The cancer cure thing apparently works under Wine, though I haven't tried it.
I treat it as a game- watching my "score" (position) go up. I'm currently ranked about 39,000.
graspee
This distributed operating system sounds great! I will never miss those spare cycles on my newly-acquired (and blisteringly fast) 486DX2/66.
My only concern is that projects like this will encourage average (non geek) people to want to be "online" ALL THE TIME (!) and this may well cause the World Wide Web to become much more commercialized.
J Random Karmawhore
Windows 95? No thanks, I love my Yggdrasil!
(satire by graspee)
I already, without paying have terrabytes of off-world (sic) storage. I use it to store movies, cds, games and stuff like that. It's called gnutella. Sure, everyone else can access my storage too, but isn't that the point ?
graspee
The dictionary object is not strictly part of vb 6, it's in scrrun.dll, which is a vbscript component. You have to actually create a reference to it in a project before you can use it.
"Will nitpick for karma"
graspee
I was referring to 2 periods of time- each with 2 encoding standards: pirate and studio release.
In each case the studio release is a large mpg2 file or files on a dvd disk, the pirates used to be also mpg2 but downsized to fit on a cd and were horrible quality- now the pirates still fit on a cd but use divx (mpeg4) and look a lot nicer (than mpg2, cd size). Therefore more people are dissuaded from buying dvds because the alternative is nearly as good quality...
Hope that clears everything up.
graspee
PS why does some motherfucker keep slapping offtopic and over-rated on my posts when their not? It's almost like someone out there hates me... sob sob
I really hope that studios don't look at people's acceptance of divx and say "hey look! people accept the quality of movies that fit into 700MB!", and then start compressing their releases like this.
The reason people accept 700MB divxs is because:
a) they are free
b) the quality is a league ahead of the mpg2 of the same file size
People damn-well want dvd quality if they're paying for it, but most people would prefer free divxs instead. With only mpg2 there were more people who were willing to buy the dvd because the mpg2 encoding that fitted on a cd was sub-optimal quality.
graspee
Try edonkey at www.edonkey2000.com.
The downloads are quite slow, but the file availability is good, and you can get crcs from sharereactor.com so you know you're getting good files.
I also sometimes use gnotella and find its downloads faster but it takes longer to connect to a host.
WinMX is also supposed to be good and have no spyware but I haven't tried it. (gnotella is spyware free and edonkey's is optional on installation).
graspee
The /. effect always reminds me of a story- I think it was called "Flash Crowds" and might have been by Larry Niven.
Basically, teleportation booths are fact, and when people hear of a disaster or something somewhere in the world you get a massive influx of people who just go there like vultures, for a bit of a look-see.
We should be grateful that people in our time just virtually go to hot sites.
If anyone can correct me on the author or title I'd be grateful...
graspee
I already wear glasses that, when looking at a person tell me everything I want to know about that person.
That's right- nothing.
Maybe I'm not a people person.
graspee
I was trying out an old copy of Netscape 0.9b on Windows XP /.
and so the first site I tried (Ok, the 2nd- msn.com is quicker
to type in manually) was of course
Amazingly it actually let me log on- so it must I suppose support
cookies?!?!?!
Well, the first story that caught my eye was this one
and I must say, even though it is slightly off-topic
that everything was very very grey back in 1994.
Haha- I don't have an option to select plain text/html etc.
Maybe Netters 0.9b doesn't support comboboxes even
though it supports cookies. Biiiizarre.
I must go and browse on now- to see if Netscape of this
vintage is immune to page widening.
Just checked in another window- yay! Page-widening immunity!
(I always said browsers were getting worse...)
Well bibi from 1994, if you want to get this yourself
it's available from: (forgive me- I don't know if I'm
posting this as html!)
http://21ct.gooddays.org/ncsp09.html
graspee
Your logic is flawed: just because something has never been cracked doesn't mean it can't be.
graspee
"Because it's there..."
As opposed to the cry of the coder who's asked "Why?"
Because it wasn't there!
graspee
This is not insightful.
a) someone made the same point earlier
b) the grammar is fine. He "probably designed and built the most beautiful aluminium case ever" because he DID build an aluminium case and it is PROBABLY the most beautiful ever, therefore he "probably designed and built the most beautiful aluminium case ever".
graspee
I too thought of /. immediately when I saw "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back". Now when I see flamebait posts I can (more) easily imagine little kids writing them.
graspee
What Makes a Good Web Design?
A good web designer.
Seriously, that's all there is to it. You can't really say what elements make a good web design.
You can say things that most people consider bad web design and avoid them, but not really what makes good web design, unless you are so boring and obvious as to say things like "clear, consistant layout" or "works on most modern browsers and is standards-compliant". (Well, duh).
graspee
"shite" is a real word. Perhaps it is a UK thing not used in Amorica, but I can assure you that it is a very real word in UK.
graspee
Ahahhaha, but things like asf files and (I think) avis too can contain weblinks which Media Player attempts to open.
Does anyone know whether these have to be statically in the file or if they can contain data dynamically taken from your machine? Also, which movie formats allow this?
I was just thinking then that maybe the web pages I have seen launched were in the meta-data of the file, but then I could swear I've seen a browser open when I was exactly half way through an anime once.
graspee
Heheheh is that some sort of page-widening bait, or what ?
graspee
They're being forced at "cashpoint" rather than gunpoint, and pointing large sums of money at people is nearly as effective as pointing a gun at them (for different reasons).
graspee
Does anyone know how to get netcraft to check a site not running on port 80?
graspee
Yes, it's offtopic- well mod me sideways.
It's funny - I always get a warm glow when I think about Sun, even though I hate every product of theirs I've come into contact with: Java, Solaris, NEOStarOffice.
Maybe it was a good idea they chose the name they did.
graspee
"Do you read the minds of sun execs? Unlikely."
In fact not only are they not readable by you, your group and the rest of the world, they are not even readable by owner! This is all due to a bug in the way chmod works in the solaris bio-neural interface...
graspee
"Oh well, you know the old ZX-81 and tape drive loading was still far more reliable than any PC hardware and Windows combination I've ever seen. IMHO."
Oh, really? Like the 16K RAM pack that crashes your computer if a speck of heavy dust falls on it the wrong way?
Like the tape speed loaders with checksums that would load all the way to the end and THEN crash?
Your memory is faulty. I'll buy you a new one for Xmas. It will be a surprise. (!)
graspee
IP address spoofing (in the classical sense of injecting fake information into the packets you send) is a way of STOPPING certain packets from reaching the intended destination rather than INTERCEPTING packets meant for some destination.
However, if you mean another machine on the LAN having the IP address as you expect your other machine to have then ok, yes, and especially with DHCP in effect...
But there is a simple solution: Have each machine only open one port to the outside world, use scp (secure copy) and even run it on a non-standard port and change the password every day if you feel like it.
graspee
(Ultima Weapon)
"Blue Ray"
(animation lasting 2 minutes, culminating in energy beam being shot from Ultima's mouth)
99999 99999 99999
hehe
PS feel free to substitute "9999 9999 9999 9999" if you are a ff geek who doesn't hold with all that modern stuff...
graspee